It's BASIC Week again!

[Dave G4UGM]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Eric
> Christopherson
> Sent: 13 September 2015 21:07
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> Subject: Re: It's BASIC Week again!
> 
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015, Dave G4UGM wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of
> > > Chuck Guzis
> > > Sent: 13 September 2015 19:51
> > > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> > > <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> > > Subject: Re: It's BASIC Week again!
> > >
> > > On 09/13/2015 11:39 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > > I know that this is for fun, and I don't need either reddit gold
> > > > nor stickers, but the winners being chosen randomly seriously
> > > > dampens my enthusiasm for participating.
> > >
> > > Well, participating in such an event for the fun of it might be
> > > interesting, but to be perfectly frank, I don't know what one calls "BASIC"
> anymore.
> > >
> >
> > Isn't that a Retro Question ? I seem to remember it being asked about GFA
> basic ..
> >
> >
> > > Can you run "Visual BASIC" on, say, a PDP-8?
> > >
> >
> > I doubt it, but  Visual Basic covers a multitude of sins. There was a
> > VB for DOS .... and 6 versions for Windows before we switched to VB.NET ..
> but the competition requires sprites so you would need something special...
> and I think its DOS based on a PC ...
> 
> It doesn't require sprites. It specifies that even character graphics would
> work.

So it is possible it might work on a PDP-8. Might try it on my SBC6120. Not sure if that’s true vintage...

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>         Eric Christopherson